, 1887-03-27

rible namo through the massacre of
the English Bishop Huntington and
his fifty companions. At that time
an officer of Gordon, contrary to
the instructions Of tho latter, had marched
with 300 men to the capital city OF Uganda
with q pronounced intention to occupy that
country. Emin EfPendi was sent after him
with an order to instantly bring back the de-
tachment, in which he was so successful that
not q shot was fired to disturb the peaceable
relations then existing.
Ofstill greater Importance was his success in
inducing the king of Unyoro-Gordon's neigh
Dor Of Albert Nyanza, the lake into which
the Somerset Nile enters from the east-to
make a lasting peace, for it would have been
an easy matter for this ruler to sweep Cor
don and his little troop from the face of the
earth. In acknowledgment of these services
Gordon in 1878 a Emin governor Of the
Egyptian equatorial provinces, with the rank
OF hey. 1t was no sinecurc which was thus
conferred upon him, and his work was not
made tho lighter when Gordon soon after re-
signed his post as general governor of the
Soudan.
The slave dealers who had SO long been held
down with iron rigor ngain raised their
heads; discomfort showed itself on every
band, and it needed such men as Emin Bey
and the Italian Gessi, who had at the same
timc been appointed governor of the Bahr-
El-Ghasan, to bring order out of this general
chaos.
In less than two years most of the stations
were rebuilt and all, about forty In number,
connected by means of u weekly postal SER
vice, and the district very thoroughly purified
of the slave dealers. And while formerly the
equatorial provinces had required for their
administration nm onppo1 ethci6v of p2S OA
Emin Boy three years later could show u bal
ance of $4,000. Yet the taxes had not been
raised, only strict economy and the abolish
ment Of grave abuses had brought about this
result. Good streets had been made, wagons
built and oxen Injured to the yoke. The peo-
pie have learned to weave and the prepare
ton of soap and the collecting of cotton, rice,
indigo and wheat havo been introduced.
With oil this Emin Bey has found time to
explore most infinitely his dominion and the
~neighboring countries. In his capacity Of
governor he investigated the western coun-
tries of the Mwutan Nsiga, there took new
and correct surveys and collected much ma
terial of an ethnographical and linguistic
character.
Again, In the first half of last year he made
a second journey to the western shore of the
Mwutan, crossed the lake to Kibero, on the
eastern shore, and then returned to the Wad-
elai, q little to the north OF this lake ON the
left shore of the Nile.
1t is here that ho has now for some time
held his headquarters, having changed from
Lado, which is further to the north, In hope
Of being able to communicate from there with
the western coast of Africa. However, all the
attempts made in this direction came to
naught through the hostility of the suspic-
ious ruler of Uganda, who, through fear of
losing his dominion, will in no wise permit
tho passing through of Europeans.
Nevertheless, DR.. Junker. who, with the
Italian, Capt. Casati, was long the guest of
Emin Bey, succeeded, by going around the ter
ritory Of this much feared African potentate.
in getting to South Zanzibar, and from there
to Cairo by a more western route.
And In this certainly Emin Bey and the
Italian explorer would also succeed, but Emin
refuses to abandon the men intrusted to him,
who have for so long a time stood by him In
danger and peril, without wages or clothing,
and with such poor fare, to the cruel fate
which would certainly be inflicted ON the
leaderless troops by the slave dealers. He in
tends to conduct them through the southern
country to tho coast. At present, however.
this way Is obstructed. Neither LEM nor
Fischer have been able to make their way to
him. What they have not succeeded in nc
complishins Stanley, Joseph Thomson and
the Italian, Capt. Nassau, are now attempt
ing.